Innovation

Digital vision benefits platform XP Health has raised $17.1 million in series A funding.

Healthcare payments and security software company Sphere is partnering with EHR company eMedical Practice to deliver payment acceptance technology.

Medtech company Cionic has raised $12.5 million in series A funding.

UPMC Enterprises, the venture capital arm of UPMC, will allow technology company Clearsense to use its unstructured data platform to analyze patient data. 

The first supercomputer for artificial intelligence in medicine was developed at Stanford University in the early 1970s. So it makes sense that the health system affiliated with the university recently named its inaugural chief data scientist to integrate AI into…

Mass General Brigham Ventures, Alphabet-backed GV and General Catalyst are all part of a $32 million seed funding round for Rippl, a tech-driven mental healthcare company focused on older adults.

Artificial intelligence lung cancer diagnosis company Optellum closed on a $14 million series A funding round.

Catholic Health's Mercy Hospital of Buffalo (N.Y.) will launch a new technology aimed at improving communication between physicians and first responders, WIVB reported Sept. 26. 

General Dynamics IT has been awarded a five-year, $110 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide IT and service desk support to VA locations nationwide, according to Sept. 26 reporting in Washington Technology.

Big Tech companies including Microsoft, Google and Amazon have been making headway in the healthcare industry through partnerships with hospitals and health systems.